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How can I make the mouse pointer leave a fullscreen application in a multi-monitor setup?

How can I make the mouse pointer leave a fullscreen application in a multi-monitor setup?

I'm often playing a fullscreen game (like Civilization or Anno) and watching a DVD on another monitor in the meantime.

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bert [Entry]

"Until now nobody provided a working answer, so I provide my own until I there's a better one.

It seems that this is a limitation by the DirectX fullscreen mode. The only workaround I found was getting rid of the fullscren mode and play in windowed mode."
bert [Entry]

Try [Ctrl]-[Alt] ... I have no particular reason to expect that to work, but combinations like that (sometimes [Shift]-[[Alt] or other combinations, sometimes held down, other times pressed and released) have been used to "escape" from various VMware, VNC, and similar windows).